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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 138, The Harry and Carol Djanogly Gallery

Dish

1689 (made)
Artist/Maker
Norfolk House Pottery (manufacturer)
Place of origin
Norfolk House (made)
Netherlands (made)

Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A Chinese figure standing on a terrace in an oriental landscape surmounted by the inscription N/A S/1689, with a border of alternating floral and oriental classic scroll motifs. All the decoration is in blue with dark grey outlines.
Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greyish white, slightly crazed.
Shape: Shape E. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)


Object details

Categories
Delftware
Ceramics
Earthenware
SCRAN
Object type
Dish
Materials and techniques
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted
Tin Glaze
Earthenware
Glazed
Painted
Brief description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted, possibly made by Norfolk House pottery, London or made in the Netherlands, 1689
Physical description
Dish of tin-glazed earthenware, painted. A Chinese figure standing on a terrace in an oriental landscape surmounted by the inscription N/A S/1689, with a border of alternating floral and oriental classic scroll motifs. All the decoration is in blue with dark grey outlines.
Body colour: Buff. Glaze: Greyish white, slightly crazed.
Shape: Shape E. (Alphabetic shape codes as used in appendix to Archer. Delftware. 1997)
Dimensions
  • Height: 5.3cm
  • Diameter: 35cm
Marks and inscriptions
N/A S/1689 (Inscribed)
Credit line
Mellor Bequest
Production
Probably London (may be Norfolk House) or possibly Dutch
Subjects depicted
Figure
Landscape
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, Michael. Delftware: the tin-glazed earthenware of the British Isles. A catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: HMSO, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997. ISBN 0 11 290499 8
  • Lipski and Archer, No: 179.
Other number
B194. - <u>Delftware</u> (1997) cat. no.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.21-1963

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Record createdJanuary 29, 2000
Record URL
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